The exploration of kinetic abstract art and music set in relation to each other.
Visual music, lumia, abstract animation, audiovisual performances and installations.
Instructor: Adriano Abbado
Website: http://www.abbado.com
Course Page: Internal
Location: eStudio (Arts 2220)
Time: Tuesdays 16:00-18:50
Overview:
MAT 594X is a graduate-level class on Audiovisual Art. No previous programming experience is required, but knowledge of environments such as Max/MSP/Jitter, Processing, Quartz Composer, or C/C++, is suggested.
The course will focus on the history of Audiovisual Art, on its perceptual aspects, on audiovisual language, and on the creation of a final project.
Syllabus:
1 Introduction, synaesthesia, and audiovisual machines
2 History of audiovisual art I - Traditional art and early filmmakers
3 History of audiovisual art II - Classic filmmakers
4 Contemporary animations
5 Correspondences, free associations and language
6 Film projections with Bill Alves
7 Lumia, contemporary installations and performances I
8 Contemporary installations and performances II
9 Film projections with Larry Cuba
10 Discussion with students about their projects
11 Final presentation
Special visit to Los Angeles: works by James and John Whitney Sr., May 26th, 2007.
Students' works shown at Fishbon Pescadrome, Santa Barbara, June 15th, 2007, 9pm.
Works shown by: Abbado, Actop - Glaznost - Shudo, Alves, Bailey, Battey, Beckett, Belson, Brakhage, Bute, C-TRL Labs - Audio Quest, Coldcut/Exstatic, Crundwell - Faulkner, Cuba, D-Fuse - Beck/Fluid/Scanner/Sciarrino, Dienststelle - Noto, Draves, Earls, Eggeling, Engel, evidence - Bainbridge/Biggs/Marcus/Robinson/skfl, Fischinger, Fox, Gondry, Granular Synthesis, Hfr-Lab - RCQ, Hirsh, Krukowski, Levin, The Light Surgeons - Scanone, Lye, McKay, McLaren, Miller, Nokami - Sans Soleil, Noto - Sakamoto, otolab, Power Graphixx - Friedman, Reich - Offenhuber/Pfaffenbichler & Schreiber/Reas, Rekveld, Richter, Roads - O'Reilly, Rudi - Pope, Ruttmann, Semiconductor, Sheppee vs V Squared Labs - Damiak, Smith, Stadnik, UVA - Zongamin, Varèse - Le Corbusier, White, James Whitney, John Whitney Sr., Wilfred.
Many thanks to Bret Battey, Dennis Miller, otolab, Joost Rekveld, Jøran Rudi.
Special thanks to Bill Alves, Larry Cuba, Cindy Keefer, John Whitney Jr.
Assignments:
Assignments based on papers will be given weekly in order to provide a theoretical framework.
Grading:
The final project will be worth 50% of the grade, assignments 30%, and class attendence 10%.
Traditional Authors:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
Giacomo Balla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Balla
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciurlionis
Theo van Doesburg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Doesburg
Marcel Duchamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
Wassily Kandinsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky
František Kupka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/František_Kupka
Paul Klee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee
Étienne-Jules Marey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne-Jules_Marey
László Moholy-Nagy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Moholy-Nagy
Piet Mondrian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
Eadweard Muybridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
Georgia O'Keeffe: http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/indexflash.php
Alexander Rodchenko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Rodchenko
Arnold Schönberg: http://www.schoenberg.at/default_e.htm
Alexander Scriabin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin
Alfred Stieglitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz
Synchromism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchromism
Classic Audiovisual Authors:
Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné: http://www.baranoffrossine.com/museum/index.cfm?SelectLang=English
Jordan Belson: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson
Mary Ellen Bute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Bute
Stan Brakhage: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/brakhagestan
Louis-Betrand Castel: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/castellouis
Larry Cuba: http://www.well.com/~cuba/index.html
Tom DeWitt: http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/D/Tom_Dewitt.html
Charles Dockum: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/dockumcharles
Viking Eggeling: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/eggelingviking
Oskar Fischinger: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hallock-Greenewalt
Hi Hirsh: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/hirshhyfolder
Len Lye: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Lye
Norman McLaren: http://www.nfb.ca/portraits/fiche.php?id=285&v=h&lg=en
Nam June Paik: http://www.paikstudios.com/
Hans Richter: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/richterhans
Alexander Wallace Rimington: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/rimingtona
Walter Ruttmann: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/ruttmannwalter
Daniel Sandin: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/sandin/sandin.htm
Harry Smith: http://www.harrysmitharchives.com/
Léopold Survage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Survage
Edgard Varèse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Varèse
Bill Viola: http://www.billviola.com/
James Whitney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitney_(filmmaker)
John Whitney Sr.: http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/profile/whitney/nobio_intro.html
Thomas Wilfred: http://www.lumia-wilfred.org/
Iannis Xenakis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis
Contemporary Animations:
J. Walt Adamczyk: http://www.johnadamczyk.com/filmvideo.html xvid
Bill Alves: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/
Bret Battey: http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~bbattey/
Michael Betancourt: http://www.michaelbetancourt.com/art/telemetry/
Liubo Borissov: http://www.music.columbia.edu/~liubo/bohor05/index2.html
Peter Bosch & Simone Simmons: http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/paginas/v6/eaguas.html
Chris Casady: http://www.naptime.com/flash/artexercises/
Robert Darroll: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/darrollrobertfolder/statements
Jeffers Egan: http://www.jeffersegan.com/
Jim Ellis: http://emsh.calarts.edu/~jim/
Robin Fox: http://www.synrecords.com/label.html
Francesco Gaffuri: http://www.francescogaffuri.com/
Andrew Garton: http://www.toysatellite.org/agarton/2004/01/floating_point.html
André Gonçalves: http://www.ctrl.tk/
Robert Hodgin: http://www.flight404.com/blog/
Rumi Humphrey: http://refresh.vu/primera.htm
Samantha Krukowski: http://www.cm.aces.utexas.edu/faculty/skrukowski/
Stefanie Ku: http://www.dioskouroi.org
Anne-Sarah LeMeur: http://aslemeur.free.fr/
José Lopez-Montes: http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/user_page.pl?url=lopezmontes
Andrew Lyons: http://www.users.bigpond.com/tstex/
Stephanie Maxwell: http://www.rit.edu/~sampph/Works.html
Dennis Miller: http://www.dennismiller.neu.edu/
Bärbel Neubauer: http://www.spiralsmorphs.de/
Scott Nyerges: http://www.nyerges.com/
Richard Reeves: http://www.awn.com/qas/profiles/richard.htm
Joost Rekveld: http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld/wp/index.php
Aaron Ross: http://www.dr-yo.com/
Jøran Rudi: http://www.notam02.no/~joranru/wtca/index.html
Michael Scroggins: http://emsh.calarts.edu/~aka/papers/Absolute_Animation_and_Immersive_VR.html
Robert Seidel: http://www.2minds.de/
Semiconductor: http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/soundfilms.htm
John Stehura: http://cyberanimation.tripod.com/index.htm
David Stout: http://nfold.csf.edu/
Rob Switzer: http://www.archive.org/details/Study_One
Ying Tan: http://www.uoregon.edu/~tanying/index.html
Telcosystems: http://www.telcosystems.net/
Shawn Towne: http://web.mac.com/towne/iWeb/shawn/towne.html
Edward Zajec: http://www.dam.org/zajec/
Contemporary Installations/Performances:
Actop: http://www.actop.net/
Richard Bailey: http://www.imagesavant.com/
Benton-C Bainbridge: http://www.benton-c.com/
Steve Beck: http://www.stevebeck.tv/
Coldcut: http://www.coldcut.net/coldcut/
Dienststelle: http://www.dienststelle.de/
D-Fuse: http://www.dfuse.com/
Scott Draves: http://draves.org/
Granular Synthesis: http://www.granularsynthesis.info/
Peter Greenaway: http://petergreenaway.co.uk/
Edwin van der Heide: http://www.evdh.net/
Kurt Hentschlager: http://www.hentschlager.info/
Chika Iijima - Zach Layton: http://www.imagima.com/
Hfr-Lab: http://www.hfr-lab.com/
Speedy J: http://www.speedyj.com/newsite/index.html
Randy Jones: http://2uptech.com/
Skoltz Kolgen: http://www.skoltzkolgen.com/
Ryoichi Kurokawa: http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/
Ulf Langheinrich: http://www.epidemic.net/geogb/art/gs/ulf/indexgb.html
Golan Levin: http://www.flong.com/
The Light Surgeons: http://www.thelightsurgeons.co.uk/
Jarryd Lowder: http://jarrydlowder.com/
Glenn McKay: http://www.glennmckay.to/
MELA Foundation: http://melafoundation.org/main.htm
Finn & Robin McNicholas: http://ultre.co.uk/
Nokami: http://www.nokami.com/htm_en/01_0.htm
Alva Noto: http://www.alvanoto.com/
otolab: http://www.otolab.net/
Jack Ox: http://www.bway.net/~jackox/
Scott Pagano: http://www.neither-field.com/index.php?page=bio
Power Graphixx: http://www.power-graphixx.com/
Reactable: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
Curtis Roads: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~clang/
Ben Sheppee: http://www.eoptica.com/sheppee/
George Stadnik: http://www.photonlightguitars.com/index.html
Jennifer Steinkamp: http://jsteinkamp.com/
UVA: http://www.uva.co.uk/
The Vasulkas Inc.: http://www.vasulka.org/
Leo Villareal: http://www.villareal.net/
Resources:
Center for Visual Music: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/
The iotaCenter: http://www.iotacenter.org/
Other Links:
arika: http://www.arika.org.uk/
Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp
Center for Brain and Cognition: http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/CBC2.html
Ernest Chladni: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chladni
Experimental Television Center: http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/
Fred Collopy: http://rhythmiclight.com/
Color organ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_organ
Richard Cytowic: http://cytowic.net/
Dissonanze: http://www.dissonanze.it/home/home.php
EMAF: http://www.emaf.de/
The Fischinger Archive: http://www.oskarfischinger.org/
International Congress Synaesthesia, Science & art: http://www.sinestesia2007.info/
Lumia manuscripts: http://mssa.library.yale.edu/madid/showthumb.php?id=mss&msrg=1375&msrgext=0&pg=1
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts: http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index.html
The New York Digital Salon - Abstract Visual Music: http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/11/index.htm
NOT STILL ART Festival: http://www.improvart.com/nsa/
NOTV: http://www.notv.com/
Optronica: http://www.optronica.org/
Piano Optofonique: http://optophoniqueeng.heatherodonnell.info/
Prometheus Institute: http://prometheus.kai.ru/
Oliver Sacks: http://www.oliversacks.com/
Sonar: http://www.sonar.es/portal/eng/home.cfm
Sons & Lumières: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/E4B6AD56B6DA4B2FC1256DD600561C77?OpenDocument
Transmediale: http://www.transmediale.de/site/
V2-Institute for the Unstable Media: http://www.v2.nl/
Video Synthesizers: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vsynths.htm
Visual music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_music
Visual Music: http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visualmusic/
Visual Music Marathon: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/
What Sound Does a Color Make?: http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/whatsound/what_sound.htm
White Noise: http://www.acmi.net.au/wn_white_noise.jsp
Books:
Expanded Cinema, Youngblood, P. Dutton & Co., 1970, http://www.ubu.com/historical/youngblood/expanded_cinema.pdf
Experimental Animation, Russett - Starr, Da Capo Press, 1976, ISBN 0-306-80314-2
The Sound of Painting, von Maur, Prestel, 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2082-3
Sons & Lumières, von Maur - Rousseau - Cooper - Levin - Lista - Kahn - Duplaix - Kihm - Szendy, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2004, ISBN 2-84426-244-9
Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900, Brougher - Strick - Wiseman - Zilczer, Thames and Hudson, 2005, ISBN 0-500-51217-5
audio-visual art + vj culture, Faulkner/D-FUSE, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2006, ISBN 1-85669-490-9